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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I
see . . . according to those on the fringe, only those who claim to be able to
afford to pay their freely acquired debts should actually have to pay.
And, for those who claim they can’t afford to pay, then the government
should just pick up their tab. And, because Fischer & Swindell are expected
to pay the bill they willingly ran up rather than having the taxpayers financially
foot their folly, it’s “deeply disturbing” and “vindictive.”
Imagine having to play by the same rules as the rest of us </span><span
style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Whining seems to be a recurrent
theme in certain circles, doesn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks
for sharing the article with us, Tim – it gave me a great laugh!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Well-behaved
women seldom make history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>~
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2008
through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt,
or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written
permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>TIM RIGSBY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 27, 2008 2:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Ten Commandments activists still owe city of Boise
more than $10, 000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/427122.html">http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/427122.html</a><br>
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What is really crazy is that these people are upset because a lien was placed on
their property even though they have had 4-1/2 years to pay the court ordered
debt. Some people are just crazy...<br>
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<h1><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Ten Commandments activists
still owe city of Boise more than $10,000<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>In
March 2004, the Ten Commandments monument was moved from Julia Davis Park to
St. Michael's Episcopal Church.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Kathleen
Kreller - kkreller@idahostatesman.com<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<h3><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Edition Date: 06/27/08<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Local
Christian activists Bryan Fischer and Brandi Swindell are asking for donations
after the city of Boise slapped a lien on their property to collect a $10,131
bill from their group's failed legal effort to keep a Ten Commandments monument
in Julia Davis Park.<br>
Swindell and Fischer led a lengthy court battle to keep the monument in the
park.<br>
The Boise City Attorney's Office wrote the duo they had until July 15 to
resolve the matter, or it would "proceed against you to collect the
amounts due, plus interest and costs."<br>
In his daily newsletter, Fischer, a former pastor who runs the Idaho Values
Alliance, asks supporters for financial help.<br>
“Ms. Swindell and I both work for small non-profit organizations and thus
have limited means,” Fischer said. “The city of Boise, on the other
hand, has an annual budget of $479 million, and thus is certainly in a position
to waive this judgment.”<br>
"The recent actions by Mayor (Dave) Bieter and the Boise City Council to
go after a former pastor and single woman, who both run non-profit
organizations, is deeply disturbing on many levels," Swindell wrote a
press release, and went on to call the city's action "vindictive."<br>
Adam Park, spokesman for Bieter, denied the city's action is vindictive.<br>
A district judge ordered Generation Life, Swindell and Fischer to pay the
city's fees in connection with the suit in 2004, Park said. At that time, an
automatic lien was placed against the property when the order was recorded in
the Ada County Recorder's Office, he said.<br>
Bieter and the Boise City Council directed the attorney's office to collect the
funds after recently finding out the money hadn't been paid, Park said.<br>
"By requesting that the parties comply with the judge's order, we are
simply fulfilling our obligation to taxpayers to pursue all money owed to the
city by any party," Park said.<br>
Park said the city is willing to work out a "payment plan."<br>
Swindell and Fischer formed the Keep the Commandments Coalition after city
officials moved the 40-year-old Ten Commandments monument from Julia Davis Park
in March 2004.<br>
The City Council removed the monument in 2004 to avoid a legal battle with a
controversial minister from Kansas seeking to put an anti-gay monument in the
park. The monument was donated to the city in the 1960s.<br>
The coalition gathered more than 18,000 signatures in support of an initiative
that would have asked voters to return the monument. The group filed legal
requests to halt the move.<br>
In April 2004, U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge ordered Swindell, Fischer and
Generation Life pay the city's attorney fees after a request from the city.<br>
Bieter refused to schedule an election, and a 4th District Court judge agreed.
The coalition asked the Idaho Supreme Court to overturn the district court's
decision and prevailed.<br>
In November 2006, nearly 53 percent of Boise voters rejected an initiative
asking the city to replace it.<br>
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" 'Politics is the art of controlling your environment.' That is one of
the key things I learned in these years, and I learned it the hard way. Anybody
who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and
sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other side of the World
-- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property -- or
been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons -- or locked up in the
Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts
wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is
President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had
voted." - Hunter S. Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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